LAFAYETTE — Michael Creamer's family and Mekeisha Roberts' supporters choked back their grief and remorse Monday inside Tippecanoe Superior 2, but their muffled sobs and suppressed wails of grief still filled the courtroom at times during Roberts' sentencing hearing.

Roberts, the drunk driver from the fatal Mother's Day crash on Indiana 38 near the mall, covered her face, rocked side to side and cried through much of her hearing.

By the end of the hearing, she learned her sentence — 10 ½ years in prison and three years on supervised probation.

She pleaded guilty Aug. 12 to all eight charges against her, but because of double jeopardy protections, convictions on only four of the eight charges were entered Monday.

The most serious of her convictions include drunk driving causing death and drunk driving causing serious bodily injury. For those convictions, Judge Steve Meyer sentenced her to six years on each count, and the sentences will be served consecutive — or 12 years.

Meyer suspended three years of that, placing her on probation.

But Roberts also pleaded guilty to violating her probation. For this, Meyer imposed the 18 months from a suspended sentence from her March 2017 conviction for corrupt business influence. That sentence runs consecutive to her drunken driving sentences.

Roberts admitted in 2017 to skimming McDonald's customers credit or debit cards so that the cards could be duplicated and their money stolen.

Creamer was Roberts' boyfriend and father of her five children — one of which is not yet born.

"Key-Key, you don't know what you've done to me," Creamer said, noting how she welcomed Roberts into the family and loved her.

"... You need to do time for this, Key-Key. You do."

Roberts also had a moment to address the court.

"I would like to take a moment to apologize to my victims — my children, Michael, the Creamer family and Tatianna (Jones).

"Michael was my partner, my best friend, my rock," she said.

"... The night of May 12 will haunt me for the rest of my life."

Roberts crashed her car about 2:45 a.m. May 12. She was five-months pregnant, drunk and driving.

Deputy Prosecutor Michael Dean played police body cam video from the scene that showed creamer slumped over and not moving, and showed Jones, the backseat passenger, speaking with first responders in the back of the car.

The video was the most emotional part of the hearing for the families.

"Why is he slumped over," Roberts asked officers. "Is he breathing? Is he OK?"

"Because of your action, a young man — the father of your children and your unborn child — died," Meyer said.

There were so many times that night that she could have made other choices and avoided Creamer's death and Jones' life-altering injuries, Meyer told her.

Meyer also chided her for drinking while she was pregnant.

"You decided to get into a car because ... 'I was less drunk than the others,'" Meyer said, quoting Roberts from her Aug. 12 guilty plead. "If you were the least drunk, then you should have had the most sense and not get into this car."

Roberts will have to serve 75 percent of the 10 ½-year prison sentence.

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